If one millionth part of the men and women who live in this world simply sit down and for a minute say, "You are all God, O ye men and O ye animals and living beings, you are all manifestations of the one living Deity!" the whole world will be changed in half an hour.
Vivekananda
Imagine looking at self and everything in this world as God. We would approach it all differently, wouldn't we? Realization is all about seeing the Divine in all. It is a path we all would be better off taking.
Michael A Singer tells us:
Spirituality is about letting go of yourself, about dying to be reborn.
What does realization do for the self?
Such a man becomes a world-mover for whom his little self is dead and God stands in its place. The whole universe will become transfigured to him. That which is painful and miserable will all vanish; struggles will all depart and go. Instead of being a prison-house, where we every day struggle and fight and compete for a morsel of bread, this universe will then be to us a playground. Beautiful will be this universe then!
Who wouldn't want that for the self?
What does realization of truth do to the world?
This will be the great good to the world resulting from such realization, that instead of this world going on with all its friction and clashing, if all mankind today realize only a bit of that great truth, the aspect of the whole world will be changed, and, in place of fighting and quarelling, there would be a reign of peace. This indecent and brutal hurry which forces us to go ahead of every one else will then vanish from the world. With it will vanish all struggle, with it will vanish all hate. with it will vanish all jealousy, and evil will vanish away for ever.
That is the great utility of divine realisation. Everything that you see in society will be changed and transfigured then. No more will you think of man as evil; and that is the first great gain. No more will you stand up and sneeringly cast a glance at a poor man or woman who has made a mistake. No more...will you look down with contempt upon the poor woman who walks the street in the night, because you will see even there God Himself. No more will you think of jealousy and punishments. They will all vanish; and love, the great ideal of love, will be so powerful that no whip and cord will be necessary to guide mankind aright.
Who wouldn't want that forthe world?
Why the he$$ are we not experiencing this now? Especially when so many of us purport to be on the "spiritual" path.
Until you work through what is blocking you ...spiritually is like sailing with the sail down in a sailing vessel that is anchored. Michael A. Singer (somewhat paraphrased)
He also says spirituality is about not being pulled down into the garbage while you are doing your life
Three things get in the way then? Our identification with ego, our samskaras and our worldly distractions. Hmm!
Because of the anchor of samskara that remains in this "me", I still get pulled down into the stinky stuff. One moment of forgetting and "whoosh", I am sucked from the path of truth and into the drama called, "Me and my problems." It is a drama about garbage...stuff that shouldn't matter, stuff that is "statistically insignificant". Yet, I find myself rolling around in that "stuff", forgetting what and who I am. (Well...I shouldn't say forgetting what I am. I forget what I am being told I am...because I have yet to experience what I am first hand.) So, I roll around in this garbage trying to cling to what might be useful in the future. Mostly, though I spend my time pushing away what is potentially sharp and repulsive.
If you are paying attention to what you pushed away, you are not paying attention to what you are. Michael Singer
Why does this little self think so much about itself when it could be free and staring at the Divine in all? This little "self" we identify as that is caught up in the garbage is not important. It is only important because we are staring at it, listening to it, and believing it is so important. We mix up this ego with God and listen to it rather than seek Truth. We fail, then, to see the God in us and the God in all. We need to recognize what we are staring at as unimportant and simply remove our focus from it...so that we fall back into what is.
It is, I am learning, a process of seeking what is important...taking the path...slipping off of or being pulled off of this path ...getting lost...waking up a bit to realize you are off the path and getting back on...again, and again, and again.
Man, why is it so challenging to stay on the path and to remember and live life as Who we are? Especially when we are being told just how beautiful it can be.
And the whole universe with its myriads of suns and moons, through everything that speaks, with one voice will say, "Thou art That." Vivekananda
Hmm! Well here I am walking along...until the next distraction that is. I would like to think I am spending more time on the path than I am off it. Is that possible?
All is well.
Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe/ Sounds True ( May 12, 2025) From Suppression to Surrender: The Journey Home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn9lxtAIa2E&list=PLyOuAoSmZkKoESr2acNWwhznusbBkKXsT&index=1
Swami Vivekananda (n.d.) 2.5 Jnana -Yoga. In The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Kindle Edition
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